Summer music festivals seem a world away as we experience the typical January chill, yet Manchester’s main music event kicks off in the coming days.

“We always got told we’d struggle here, but no. As soon as we walk through the door, football is out the window and we’re f***ing cousins,” Courteeners frontman Liam Fray affirmed to the room.

Reassembled and refreshed, Manchester’s hottest upcoming band once upon a time are on the rise again and performing at the Night & Day Café on Friday.

The Four Tops and the Temptations are bringing their iconic Motown sound to Manchester next week.

The North Face bought some of Manchester’s finest artists to the height of First Street last week in a celebration of urban exploration.

With the Greater Manchester Fringe running through all of July – the event’s seventh year – Mancunian Matters went to speak to some of the acts and the organisers of the event at the closing party…

Fans attending one-day festivals with headliners Liam Gallagher and Queens of the Stone Age at the end of June quickly flooded social media with complaints of poor organisation, long queues and overcrowding.

This July ‘RivFest’ is being held in Warrington, in memory of the Viola Beach guitarist River Reeves who tragically died on tour in 2016.

“Life is too short not to be something you love,” Kiefer Sutherland declares on what is surely a midsummer night in a sweltering Albert Hall.

Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley is bringing his unique blend of reggae, dub, dance hall, and hip hop to a sold-out O2 Ritz later this month, promising to be one of the unmissable city centre gigs of the summer.

Back in August 2017, the internet went into meltdown as Taylor Swift wiped her social media slate clean. Eventually, after three long days of Blank Space, she posted a grainy, flickering video to Instagram of an ominous black snake.